How to Choose the Best Cocktail Kit?
While you wait for your cocktail, you often watch the bartender make cocktails. It seems easy and it is once you have the best cocktail kit. What should you look for in the kits available? After all, a bartender is only as good as their ingredients for making drinks. At home, you want to be the expert in serving your friends and family. This is the best location for a celebration, as the atmosphere is far more private and the drinks can be made to individual tastes.
What Are Cocktails?
Cocktails are drinks that contain 2 or more ingredients. A great variety of cocktails stems from the many different combinations of alcohol, bitters and other mixes used. In order to make the very best, you need a wide assortment of liquors.
Select the Kit that Suits Your Taste
You are able to purchase a variety of flavors for mixing the cocktails one by one, or you could be more adventurous and purchase a kit that includes several flavors.
a) Bitters and Shrubs Sampler Gift Set
This kit includes the widest range of the handcrafted flavors all wrapped up in an exquisite wooden carrying case.
Strong water Bitters & Shrubs Sampler Gift Set
The 9 one ounce bottles, including four Bitters and five Shrubs along with recipe cards.
• Bitters: Golden Ichor, Amores Melipona, Fire Tamer, Sweet Riza
• Shrubs: Blueberry – Mint, Cherry-Thyme, Ginger-Pear, Peach-Rose, Persimmon- Lavender
b) Chocolate Lover’s Kit
The name says it all. This kit will appease the most devoted chocoholic. It includes:
• 2 ounces of Drinking Chocolate
• 1 ounce of Amores Bitters (again a chocolate and vanilla blend)
• A quality jigger
• Recipe cards
• Exquisite wooden box
c) Herbal Cocktail Bitters
The kit includes 5 of the 6 bitters available in a half ounce size.
• Golden – old fashion
• Riza – orange licorice
• Tamer – lemon ginger
• Amores – chocolate vanilla
• Floral – lavender mountain wildflowers
d) The Bitters Collection
This set has 6 flavors:
• Golden – old fashion
• Riza – orange licorice
• Tamer – lemon ginger
• Amores – chocolate vanilla
• Floral – lavender mountain wildflowers
• Wildfire: a spicy, pepper blend
e) Shrubs Sample Box
All of the shrubs are from organic sources and contain no sugars or fruit juices. Two ounces of each flavor is part of the set.
• Blueberry and mint
• Cherry and thyme
• Ginger and pear
• Peach and rose
• Persimmon and lavender
f) Shrubs Collection
The collection contains all the 5 flavors from above in a size.
Recipes
While these are the standard cocktails available in every bar, by doing some research and purchasing the right ingredients, you can serve some unique drinks. Search the official website of Strongwater for some fabulous recipes. The names of the cocktails are intriguing: Mirage, Equilibrium, Switchback, and Summit.
So, the choice is yours. Select a kit with all the choices, or 2 sampler kits, or purchase the ones you use often in single large sizes. Now that you have chosen the best cocktail kit, it is time to plan your next party.
